Amazing 'eggs' worth over millions of dollars

The egg is carved out of rock-quartz crystal, engraved with two tied laurel leaf sprays, the upper half cloaked with platinum trelliswork and a tasseled fringe, with two consoles shaped as double-headed eagles set with rose-cut diamonds.

A large diamond engraved with the year '1910' surmounts the egg, set in band of small roses.

The two platinum double-headed eagles on the sides of the egg have diamond crowns.

The surface of the egg between the eagles is engraved with branching patterns, adjoined at the bottom.

The lower part of the egg serves as a platform for a gold model of a statue of Tsar Alexander III on horseback, standing on a nephrite base embellished with two rose-cut diamond bands, engraved with Faberges signature, supported by cast platinum cherubs coiled into position on a base of crystal.

It is currently held in the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow.

The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II to his mother Maria Feodorovna at Easter 1910 and cost 14,700 rubles.

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Image: The 'Alexander III Monument' egg by Faberge sits on display in the Kremlin.Photographs: Alexander Natruskin/Reuters

The egg was presented to Alexandra Fedorovna at Easter in 1908 as a gift from Nicholas II at a cost of 12,300 rubles and housed in Alexandra Fedorovna's Mauve Sitting Room in the Alexander Palace from 1913-1916.

The stand is modern, having been made in 1989 at the Moscow experimental jewellery factory.

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Image: he 'Alexander Palace' Egg by Faberge sits on display in the Kremlin.Photographs: Alexander Natruskin/Reuters

Amazing 'eggs' worth over millions of dollars

This is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made by Michael Perchin under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Faberge in 1904, for the Russian industrialist Alexander Ferdinandovich Kelch, who presented the egg to his wife, Barbara Kelch-Bazanova.

Upon the hour, a diamond set cockerel pops up from the top of the egg, flaps its wings four times, nods his head three times, crowing all the while during this routine.

This lasts fifteen seconds, before the clock strikes the hour on a bell.

The Kelch Chanticleer egg is, together with the 1906 Moscow Kremlin egg, one of Faberge's largest Imperial Easter eggs.

It was long believed to be an Imperial egg and was purchased as such from A La Vieille Russie by Malcolm Forbes in 1966.

In 2004 it was sold as part of the Forbes Collection to Viktor Vekselberg. Vekselberg purchased some nine Imperial eggs from the collection, for almost $100 million.

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Image: A visitor looks at 'The Kelch Chanticleer Egg' on display at the exhibition 'Faberge. The Sacred Images' , in the Vatican Museums at the Vatican.Photographs: Tony Gentile/Reuters

Amazing 'eggs' worth over millions of dollars

The Imperial Coronation Egg was made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Faberge in 1897 by Faberge ateliers, Mikhail Perkhin and Henrik Wigstrom.

The egg was made to commemorate the 1896 Coronation of Czar Nicholas II.

The valuable piece of Russian history was then presented as a gift to his spouse, the Tsaritsa, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.

Fitted inside a velvet-lined compartment is a precise replica, less than four inches long, of the Eighteenth-century Imperial coach that carried the Tsarina Alexandra to her coronation at Moscow's Uspensky Cathedral.

The red colour of the original coach was recreated using strawberry coloured enamel and the blue upholstery of the interior was also reproduced in enamels.

The coach is surmounted by the Imperial Crown in rose diamonds and six double-headed eagles on the roof; it is fitted with engraved rock crystal windows and platinum tyres decorated with a diamond-set trellis in gold and an Imperial eagle in diamonds at either door.

Amazing 'eggs' worth over millions of dollars

It was presented by Nicolas II as an Easter gift to his wife, the Czarina Alexandra Fyodorovna.

It is currently held in the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow.

The Standart Yacht Leaf Egg is a transparent hollowed-out rock crystal egg, mounted horizontally, with a gold band with inlaid leaves of green enamel and small diamonds marking the separation point between upper and lower halves, which bears the inscription "Standart 1909".

It is on an ornate stand with classical overtones, made from gold, pearls, and enamel.

The surprise is a golden replica of the Imperial Yacht, the Standart Yacht, made of gold and platinum, and coated in vitreous enamel.

The model rests on a carved bed of crystal representing the ocean, but can be removed from the egg.

This egg was never sold and is one of the 10 Imperial Easter Eggs kept in Kremlin.

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Image: The 'Standart' yacht egg by Faberge sits on display in the Kremlin.Photographs: Alexander Natruskin/Reuters

Amazing 'eggs' worth over millions of dollars

The Memory of Azov Egg (or the Azova Egg) is a jewelled Easter egg made in 1891 for Tsar Alexander III of Russia.

It was presented by Alexander III as an Easter gift to his wife, the Czarina Maria Feodorovna.

It is currently held in the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow, and it is one of the few Faberge eggs that has never left Russia.

Carved from a solid piece of heliotrope jasper, also known as bloodstone, the Memory of Azov Egg is decorated in the Louis XV style with a superimposed gold pattern of rococo scrolls with brilliant diamonds and chased gold flowers.

The broad flute gold bezel is set with a drop ruby and two diamonds that complete the clasp.

The egg's interior is lined with green velvet.

The surprise contained within is a miniature replica of the Imperial Russian Navy cruiser Pamiat Azova (Memory of Azov), executed in red and yellow gold and platinum with small diamonds for windows, set on a piece of aquamarine representing the water.